Patch: Solaris packages don't create privsep user or group

[Thomas Binder]

Hi!

On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:50:30AM +1000, Darren Tucker wrote:
> OK I can confirm that it does NOT work with Jumpstart. useradd
> and groupadd try to modify the read-only files on the jumpstart
> NFS image.
> 
> Should we:
> (a) move them to the /etc/init.d/openssh script same as the keygens
> (b) attempt to hand-hack $PKG_INSTALL_ROOT/etc/passwd
> (c) chroot tricks?
> (d) ?

(c) /usr/sbin/chroot "$PKG_INSTALL_ROOT" "$PKG_INSTALL_ROOT/usr/sbin/useradd" [...]

seems to work flawlessly. Of course, this assumes that useradd is
already installed in the target environment, but as useradd's part
of SUNWcsu, it's quite unlikely it isn't.

One could also think about

(d) use sed/awk class (un)install scripts for /etc/passwd and
    /etc/group

This is similar to (b), but IMO a "cleaner" approach.


Ciao

Thomas